Alright, so since I'm a girl and Randy Travis has a very low voice, I have put this version into a higher key for those of you who cannot sing as low as Randy Travis. Capo 3 Key: , , , A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher Riding on a midnight bus bound for Mexico One was headed for vacation, one for higher education And two of them were searchin' for a lost soul Well that driver never ever saw the stop sign C D-----hang chord And eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime There are Chorus: Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you -hang chord It's what you leave behind you when you go , , , Verse: Well that farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres A faith and love for growin' things in his young son's heart And that teacher left her wisdom in the mind's of lots of children Did her best to give them all a better start And that preacher whispered, "can't you see the promised land?" D-----hand chord As he lay his bloodstained bible in that hooker's hand There are Chorus: Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you -hang chord It's what you leave behind you when you go , , , Bridge: Well that's the story that our preacher told last sunday As he held that bloodstained bible up for all of us to see He said, "bless the farmer and the teacher and the preacher" C D-----------------hang chord Who gave this bible to my mama, who read it to me There are Chorus: Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway Why there's not four of them, now I guess we know It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you -hang chord It's what you leave behind you when you go , , , and finish with